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MY 1 month mediterranean gecko or hemidactylus turcicus has a very shiny silver thing on his tail right where it connects to his body. i have no clue what it is but he had it ever since and i didn't think it was a problem. i cant post a picture because my touch screen camera broke when it...

so i have had my med gecko for a month and he really loves his home even though its quite small, i had him in a ten gallon tank but moved him to a 2.5 gallon tank instead since i read that a small lizard, hes an inch long, can be stressed by too much space. so now i have him in a 2.5 or 4...

Can i use cardboard as a substrate?

how big does the waterbowl half to be??????? for leopard geckos? cause i have a gatorade cap with calci stuff and a gatorade cap for mealworms and now i have a ceramic water bowl thats curved like the yin part of the yinyang for water, can this be smaller like as big as the gatorade cap cause...

So my moms a BIGGGG money saver and when we went to go get some hide from the petstore and stuff she told me they were really expensive and told me to build my own. (But we did get a waterbowl) So im wondering what i could make a humid hide out of, and two dry hides, so far i made a humid hide...

So im geting my leopard gecko for sure this weekend!!!! im so happy!!!!! but, i have a ten gallon tank and have created a nice open are for him to chase crickets and stuff but i want to know if i have to have a humid hide in there??? are there any alternatives like just putting it in there...

OK so i was going to get my gecko today but realized i had a innapropriate heat mat. now my parents say to get a heat lamp instead of a heat mat because there is less of a fire hazard even though i told them there isn't one. So i have a ten gallon tank and want to know which heat lamp is good...

How can i keep mealworms from changing to beetles and for how long does it llast. im planning on feeding them to my leopard gecko as a staple diet since they r easier than crickets but i will occasionally feed him crickets once a week.

Soo im getting my leopard gecko tomorrow and i have everything setup but i have sand as a substrate, the sand is in a thin layer so i don't think he or she will eat it. Im gonna g\keep the sand but when i get my gecko if he eats the sand, then ill replace it with paper or paper towels until he...

How many crickets or mealworms should i feed a juvnille leopard gecko a week??? and how much one day?

Hi, lately ive been thinking of getting a leopard geckoand have been doing some research. While doing my research i read numerous care sheets about their care and set up a tank to house them. here it is... Its a ten gallon tank with bed a beast as the substrate. It has one dry hide on the cool...

So i was at the pet store today and i picked up a mediterranean house gecko by a salesman for about 5 bucks, thought it was a good idea since i really wanted a gecko and here was one CHEAP!!!!! So i wanted to know if anyone knew how to care for them, its scientific name is Hemidactylus...

Hey im new to the forum and joined because the herpcenter forum was reall mean to me, hope that won't happen here but whatever. I ll soon post about my gecko to see if u can help me.